TAYLOR - A borough attorney has been prohibited from practicing law in federal court in Scranton.

David James Gnall, 43, was disbarred at U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, according to an order issued last month by Chief Judge Yvette Kane.

The order comes after Mr. Gnall voluntarily submitted his resignation from the state bar to the disciplinary board of the state Supreme Court in June following an earlier guilty plea to failing to a report a crime.

In federal court in 2009, Mr. Gnall was sentenced to one year in prison for his part in an investment scam that bilked unknowing investors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

He has been released from federal prison, records show.

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